Dany

Daniel Henrotin

(b. 28 January 1943, Belgium)

Blagues Coquines (Rooie Oortjes)

Daniel Henrotin, who signs with Dany, is best known for drawing beautiful women, as can be seen in his series 'Olivier Rameau' and the several 'Blagues Coquines' gag pages he created. He was born in Marche-en-Famenne and obtained his degree in graphics and advertising from the School of Fine Arts in Liège in 1964. He was hired as the assistant of Mittéï in 1966, who was assisting Greg and Tibet on their comics at the time. The collaboration was cut short due to Dany's military service. However, during this period, Dany found the time could find the time to do several short historical stories and illustrations for Tintin magazine.

Olivier Rameau - Le rêve aux 7 portes

Back in civil life, he joined the art studio of Michel Greg in Brussels, where he assisted on series like 'Les As'. Dany and Greg also set up their own project, resulting in the creation of the poetic and humorous 'Olivier Rameau' series in 1968. The comic was set in Dreamland and drew inspiration from 'Alice in Wonderland' and the 'Wizard of Oz'. It appeared in Tintin until the magazine's disappearance and was collected in albums by Lombard and later P&T/Joker from 1970. Dany and Greg cooperated on the series until the latter's death in 1999, leaving one episode unfinished. Dany eventually completed this final story, which was published in book format in 2006.

Histoire sans Héros

Also in cooperation with Greg, Dany created 'Jo Nuage et Kay McCloud', a parody on super cops, published in Achille Talon magazine in 1975. Although generally working in a comical drawing style, Dany has had his exploits in the realistic genre. The first one was the oneshot graphic novel he created with Jean Van Hamme, 'Histoire sans Héros', about the survivors of a plane crash in a South-American jungle. It appeared in Tintin in 1975 and was collected in book format in 1977. Dany and Van Hamme created a sequel in 1997, called 'Vingt ans après'.

Arlequin #6 - Le labyrinthe

Dany and Van Hamme continued their collaboration with the burlesque secret agent series 'Arlequin' between 1979 and 1985. Dany also took over the artwork of 'Bernard Prince' from Hermann in 1978. He made two long episodes and some short stories with Greg that were collected in book format in 1980 and 1989.

Dany's biggest success came when he started his series of soft-erotic gag pages, first collected in the 1990 book 'Ça vous intéresse?'. Dany had published his erotic gags, that would eventually become known as 'Blagues Coquines', in the Glénat magazine Le Canard Sauvage in the 1980s.

Blagues Coquines

Working with a variety of scriptwriters inluding Bob de Groot, Tibet and Hermann, Dany's 'Blagues Coquines' have appeared in many albums published by P&T Production and Joker Éditions.

Equator

Dany became an allround author in 1992, when he launched his new adventure series about entral Africa, 'Equator'. The series was published by Lombard and eventually by Alpen until 1998. He teamed up with Yves Huppen to draw 'Transylvania', the third volume of Huppen's trilogy 'Sur les traces de Dracula' for Casterman in 2006. Dany ventured into heroic fantasy with the 'Lanfeust' spin-off 'Les Guerrières de Troy' written by Scotch Arleston and Melanÿn since 2010.

Sur les traces de Dracula - Transylvania

Throughout his career, Dany has done a lot of advertising artwork, like his illustrations for the annual Citroën calendar and the 1993 promotional comic for the Junior Club of the Swiss railways, 'Les Juniors du Rail'. He has also participated in a variety of collective comic and illustration projects, like the 1973 comic adaptation of 'Alice in Wonderland' (with Greg, Dupa, Turk and De Groot) and (art) books like 'Il était une fois... Les Belges' (Lombard, 1980), '205 un sacré numéro' (Promo-BD, 1987) and 'Souvenirs de films' (Lombard, 2009).